 love as my own soul : if you survive me, as you certainly will, if a stone shall mark the place of my grave, see these words put upon it : — "Life is a jest and all things show it : I thought so once, and now I know it,  Literary Landmarks of London - Էջ 108Laurence Hutton - 1892 - 367 էջԱմբողջությամբ դիտվող - Այս գրքի մասին
 | Charles Edwards Lester - 1845 - 270 էջ
...monument is an epitaph written by himself, which is no less shocking to good taste than to reHgion : " Life is a jest, and all things show it : I thought so once, and now 1 know it." John Gay was considered a sensible man ; but he has probably had occasion to change his... | |
 | Leopold von Orlich - 1845 - 342 էջ
...contented, how many dissatisfied! The epitaph in Westminster Abbey involuntarily rose to my mind : " Life is a jest*, and all things show it: I thought so once, but now I know it." The rising sun on the 30th of July was the harbinger of * Would not dream be a... | |
 | Leopold von Orlich - 1845 - 342 էջ
...contented, how many dissatisfied! The epitaph in Westminster Abbey involuntarily rose to my mind : " Life is a jest*, and all things show it: I thought so once, but now I know it." The rising sun on the 30th of July was the harbinger of * Would not dream be a... | |
 | 1847 - 440 էջ
...of John Gay and Handel exhibit ! On the former is the epitaph written by himself and for himself : " Life is a jest, and all things show it ; I thought so once, and now I know it." Before the figure of the other is placed the " Messiah," opened at the passage, " I know that my Redeemer... | |
 | British empire - 1847 - 856 էջ
...uncomfortable amount of awe and veneration, we have a great deal of genuine love. The worthless couplet— "Life is a jest, and all things show it; I thought so once, but now I know it"— the mere expression of a mood of the poet's mind, should never have been placed... | |
 | John Spence (jr.), Young physician - 1847 - 184 էջ
...1553, and died in the year 1598." There again, in memory of Gay, is the following strange couplet: " Life is a jest, and all things show it; I thought so once, but now I know it." And here is a record of one Matthew Prior, a poet and diplomatist, who wrote his... | |
 | British empire - 1847 - 856 էջ
...uncomfortable amount of awe and veneration, we have a great deal of genuine love. The worthless couplet— " Life is a jest, and all things show it ; I thought so once, but now I know it"— the mere expression of a mood of the poet's mind, should never have been placed... | |
 | Joseph Curtis Platt, George Lillie Craik - 1851 - 860 էջ
...uncomfortable amount of awe and veneration, we have a great deal of genuine love. The worthless couplet— Í" Life is a jest, and all things show it ; I thought so once, but now I know it"— the mere expression of a mood of the poet's mind, should never have been placed... | |
 | 1851 - 608 էջ
...said to have been written by Gay himself, and inscribed on the ledge just above Pope's epitaph :— Life is a jest, and all things show it ; I thought so once, but now I know it. The epitaph of Nicholas Howe, the dramatist, (also by Pope,) has been much admired... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele - 1852 - 610 էջ
...To say what : Think what a wife should be, and She was that." Gay's epitaph on himself— " Life's a jest, and all things show it ; I thought so once, and now I know it"— we have always considered flippant in style, and unsound in reasoning, although often quoted as an... | |
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